Ciao David,
Dang! How about this.....I put them in a training scenario in the States. They have the older uniforms, since most of the good stuff is being shipped overseas, and they have the newer equipment because they just happened to have been issued that. What do you think?
Man, I really don't want to have to repaint the webgear. Am I lazy or what?
Ciao for now
Rob

I think if you were to just to repaint pieces of the gear, like the suspenders on one figure, and the cartidge belt on another, and paint the unnatached gear mixed also, you could get away with mid 1944, in the transitional phase.

I know it'll be a pain to repaint the gear. It's a shame because it's shaded excellently and looks very convincing, but it just doesn't fit in terms of how equipment got to the troops.